Chapter 47 -The Masquerade Ball

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“My Swan, let us go to the venue, I guess they are looking for us already.” Dareon held her hand and guided her until they reached the opulent Ball hall where the Masquerade Ball in celebration of the Wedding Anniversary of the King and Queen of the Kingdom of Gold Valley will be celebrated.

The Ball hall was already full of visitors; no one could really recognize the other visitors unless they will remove their masks. Even the King and the Queen wore masks. They wore Peacock masks.

The dance started and all unmated werewolves started to approach their mates they just found tonight because of this masquerade ball. The exciting part was actually the fact that they did not know yet the real facial features of their mate. They will only know it upon the announcement of the King and Queen of the Kingdom of Gold Valley that they can already remove their masks and see their newfound mate, face to face.

Even Dareon and Shelyca were excited not for themselves but for those werewolves who just met their mates at this moment.

At the back of Dareon’s mind, however, something was bothering him, “What if Shelyca’s mate werewolf is actually in this event and he will claim her?” he thought bothered.

The dance floor was full, no enough space for each dancing pair actually. This is the moment that Second Princess Trisha has been waiting for. No one recognized her. She just changed to another masquerade ball outfit and her mask now is that of a cat and not a butterfly anymore. She is Catwoman right now.

Slowly, Princess Trisha from a corner, slowly moved swiftly sneaking from pair to pair, her every stride seemed to know fully well where to go. In her hand is a small silver ice pick, covered by her worn black gloves.

A while ago, Dareon was actually surprised when he saw, Second Princess Trisha got out of the ball hall and went inside the comfort room. Furrowing and following what his instinct and his apparition were telling him; he followed the Second Princess until she reached the women’s comfort room. Before getting inside the comfort room, the Second Princess even made some left and right glances to check if someone was around. Dareon hid on one big round post nearby the comfort room.

II

Dareon furrowed more when the next thing he saw was someone getting out of the comfort room in another attire. He could determine however that it was still the Second Princess who changed her costume from a colorful butterfly to a Catwoman.

From that on, he did not remove his focus on the Second Princess. His mind was telling him that the Second Princess might be up for something tonight.

When Dareon returned to their seat, he saw his wife walking to the dance floor with a man wearing a Leon mask. Dareon wanted to go ballistic with jealousy. “Who is that man, gaddamit!” he angrily thought.

Dareon stood up with the intention to follow his wife and her partner when suddenly he saw the Catwoman stood-up too. She walked slowly, calculated, and then when Dareon looked again, he saw his wife, Shelyca, and her partner of Leon custom and mask, dancing and being sandwiched in the middle of the ball hall by other pairs.

Then Dareon’s eyes narrowed when he saw the Catwoman advancing to his direction of his, sneaking into the back of the dancing pair. Her every stride seemed to be so sure where to go.

In a matter of millisecond, Dareon was swiftly on his wife’s back, and when the Catwoman attempted to push something at the back of his dancing wife; Dareon grabbed the hand of the Catwoman, removed her mask, and twisted her hand that causes the silver ice pick she was holding fell on the floor.

“Second Princess Trisha, you wanted to kill my wife?! he glared at her as he shouted at the top of his lungs that made everyone stopped from dancing, moved back, and looked at them who remained at the center and the silver ice-pick on the floor shown as the dancing light hit it. Princess Shelyca was shocked while looking at her husband, twisting the hand of Second Princess Trisha, who is cloth in a cat-woman attire without a mask.